Buying Christmas gifts for the loved ones in your life can get so.. well, boring really, as you traipse around store after store, looking at the same old box sets and ‘gadget gifts’.
Well, hurrah for the internet as the most unusual, fun, personalised and quirky gift ideas are right at your fingertips!
Here are eight of our favourites this year:
1. Colorines Wonderful
For awesome hand-painted personalised teapots, Xmas baubles, mugs and more, check out the groovy and very colourful Colorines Wonderful.
Order online at Colorine Wonderful
2. A Little Bit Of Lovely
A Little Bit of Lovely is a Children’s Handmade Clothing boutique, specializing in tutus, superheroes accessories and general dress up. It offers a range of beautiful items which children and grown-ups alike will adore.
Order online at A Little Bit Of Lovely
3. Chupi
Irresistibly drawn to “wild and natural things” Chupi’s signature piece is the I Can Fly Swan Feather Ring, plated in 18k gold from a delicate swan feather found along the banks of Dublin’s Royal Canal. Each piece is designed, manufactured and finished in Ireland.
Order online at Chupi.ie
4. ‘This is Trinity’
‘This is Trinity’ is both a children’s book, and an Irish souvenir, comprising more than forty watercolour reproductions, including the Old Library and The Book of Kells (one of Ireland’s most precious treasures).
Order online at mIrishDublin
5. Santa’s Flask
There is absolutely no reason why Mammies and Daddies can’t have their own stocking to hang on the fireplace too, right? RIGHT?! ;o)
Order online at Amazon
6. Personlised mugs
These are big business in our family, as grandad demands an updated mug every year with a new pic of him and the kids on it!
Get them here at gifts.ie
7. Quirky gifts for a quirky gal
I love these unusual tees, cushions and art, all designed with the independent woman in mind. Beats the bejangles out of another shower gel gift set, eh?
Visit the site at RedBubble.com
8. Home brew kits
‘Join the Home Brew Revolution’, say home brew kit suppliers, Geterbrewed, and well we might. Finally, a present for himself that he will totally appreciate!
Find them online at Geterbrewed.com
If you have any more quirky gift ideas, why not send them over to Sharyn.Hayden@HerFamily.ie
